FotoFest

I'm afraid it's more group shows, but maybe the next big trawl will haul in some treasure.

Early registration is now open for the 2014 International Meeting Place, FotoFest’s portfolio review program in Houston. March seems a long way off and $860 (the cost of one 4-day…

“After 26 years creating and developing FotoFest, it is time for new leadership,” say FotoFest Co-founders Wendy Watriss and Fred Baldwin. “As part of FotoFest’s Board of Directors, we are…

My week of exhibition openings began at Rice Gallery with Gunilla Klingberg, who was kind enough to do an interview with me for Glasstire. We began the interview before the…

Glasstire contributors offer up their picks for the best spring shows around the state. Think we missed something great? Post it in the comments section below! AUSTIN Alison Kuo: Colorful…

Arts educator Glenn Bailey has joined Fotofest as the new manager of their acclaimed Literacy Through Photography program. Bailey, who has  put in five years in the nonprofit sector in…

Next Friday and Saturday, representatives from Houston area schools and big local arts orgs confer to create successful partnership programs that aim to elevate student achievement through art. The two-day…

     Let’s talk Deadwood. David Milch’s superlative television show was quite good at putting his audience just outside of a given situation.  The characters often spoke and behaved in…

Tyler Rudick of Houston’s Cuturemap reports on a bevy of international reporters in town for Fotofest, including “journalists from publications like The Economist, The Moscow Times and Die Zeit.” They…

Did you know that the City of Katy has granted the Katy Culture & Arts Alliance  $6,059 to help support the town’s first biennial of photography, Fotofest Katy 2012? Scheduled…

In honor of the FotoFest 2012 Biennial, we’re republishing this 2008 classic from the inimitable Clint Willour… Just in in time for FotoFest‘s Meeting Place, veteran portfolio reviewer, curator and…

The 14th edition of Fotofest the Houston photo-art biennial is something special this time around: featuring  three massive exhibitions of sometimes overlooked historical Russian photography from the 1950’s to today,…

Choreography a collaboration by Jim Nolan and Linda Post. Documentation of opening night performance featuring: Daniel Adame, Shanon Adams, Tina Shariffskul and Prudence Sun. Documentation by Lillie Monstrum.   For…

Every other March, swarms of photographers and photo-related exhibitions swamp Houston’s art scene, and 2012 is one of those years: Fotofest’s 2012 Biennial focuses on Contemporary Russian Photography, blanketing the…

Artcrawl, Houston’s 19th annual open studio event takes place next weekend, on Saturday, November 19. More than 180 artists and studios, will be participating this time around, so I’ll leave…

On June 22, 36 digital cameras were stolen from Houston’s Literacy Through Photography program.  Forty students who were using them in a class at Project Row Houses’ Summer Arts Enrichment…

So you may have heard, Houston is getting an art fair. Um, actually two art fairs. There has been a ridiculous amount of controversy surrounding these fairs, a classic tempest…

Here’s an interesting cross-section of San Antonio arts news. Now that I look at it, though, “escena” looks a little too much like “eczema” so I’m gonna call the next…